First one was an old AMD 80386 DX/40mhz machine with a 14" CRT display and MS-Dos 5.0. Remember very well gorillas.bas and nibbles.bas games and the wonders of the MS DOS Shell. How very basic. It had a marvellous 40mb HDD - a 5.25" floppy drive and a 3.5" drive too. And later was upgraded to have a sound-card and CD-ROM drive.

And then got Sid Meiers Civilisation 1.0 - it was amazing.

No longer have that computer any more, and I'm not able to find any photos of it, since it was so long ago.

I also remember very fondly F-117A Stealth Fighter game from Microprose, flying that thing very slowly at low altitude trying to creep past the opposition. Great memories from ages ago!

The first one that was mine was a hand me down from my dad when I was little. It was originally a 33MHz 386 with 4MB RAM and a 100MB hard drive, which was honestly about the best you could get when he bought it, I believe about 20 years ago. Probably came with DOS, but it had 3.11 on it in my first memory of it. Later got upgraded to a 100MHz 486 DX, 16MB RAM and an additional 860MB (or something like that) hard drive that cost about $300 at the time. It got win95 shortly after its release. Loved that OS. The thing was old enough that it actually had a hard switch on the front to turn it on and off, so you actually had to flip it when the screen came up saying it was safe to turn off the computer.

I played a lot of pinball and other games on there. We had one called Hover that came with the win 95 expansion pack or whatever. That was a fun one.

I haven't honestly had my own computer since that one died a few years back until my current aluminum MacBook.

I had messed around with a Vic/C 64, but these were more games machines.

My first real computer was a Tulip 1, back in 1985. The name says it all a Dutch computer, an IBM clone. The factory was situated in the same town as I lived and worked.
The computer was purchased through the company where I worked, you gave up 7 days holiday and the computer was yours. (At the time the average holiday allowance was 28 days). The only other stipulation was that it ran MS DOS, like the companies computers.

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